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Many of our plants are poisonous but frequently we lack precise knowledge regarding their effects. This is especially so in the case of plants which produce human poisoning. The position is more satisfactory in regard to animal intoxications. In both groups, however, much remains to be done to improve our knowledge of their chemical composition and effects so that cases of plant poisoning in man and animal may be diagnosed and treated intelligently and ...
The poetics of Literature has experienced and absorbed a variety of revolutions in its chequered history from Plato to Derrida. But few of these revolutions have affected students of literature more abidingly than those discussed in this volume. Bharata and Aristotle, Kshemendra anda Horace, and, Freud and Jung are still contemporary with us. We simply cannot do without them if we ever cared to be remembered by posterity for our understanding and enjoyment of ...
A comprehensive and polemical study of the Hindu view of woman, the present study seeks to deconstruct, question and expose the phallogocentrism of patriarchal metaphysics which pervades the entire corpus of Hindu literature on the subject. By adapting himself to what is now known as ‘cross-gender reading’, the author is able to demonstrate that Hindu texts, the loud-mouthed masculinist propaganda about the so-called ‘glorification’ of femininity ...